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Photos: Senegal Police Tear-Gas Protesters

DAKAR, Senegal — In the biggest challenge yet to Senegal’s aging president, thousands of demonstrators shut down the capital’s downtown district Friday and took to the streets in three towns in the interior, lobbing rocks at police who forced them back with tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses.
Anger is boiling over after the party of Senegal’s 85-year-old leader proposed a constitutional amendment which would create the post of vice president. Critics say the position is being engineered so President Abdoulaye Wade can hand power to his unpopular son – expected to become the vice president if the measure passes – if Wade dies in office.
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